China Mieville’s New Book, “Un Lun Dun,” is for Little Girls (and you)!

I was excited to learn today that China Mieville, he of fantastical monster-fiction fame, has released a new book for a younger audience, and a female audience at that! Sure to be a late night page-turner, it comes out tomorrow (so you can still get your pre-order discount at Amazon). Buy it for one of those brainy kids you know who “read too much” and then steal it for a day or two yourself!

Without having read this book, I’m betting it’s one of those books for twisted children, the ones like me, who loved to read dark fairy tales and stories where good does not always triumph over evil.

Here’s a little quote from the Wired article where I discovered this:

The latest example is British fantasy writer China Miéville, whose Un Lun Dun follows a young girl’s quest to save a creepy parallel-universe London. And for Miéville, best known for a steampunk trilogy full of superhot, beetle-headed women and nightmare-eating monsters, it’s a new direction. He’s written something that kids, especially young girls, will devour.